01-23-2010, 01:14 AM
If it is possible to interpret the figures as wearing Tube-and-Yokes, and the lines as pteryges, it is equally possible to interpret it as a 'Bell' cuirass - note the supposed 'pteryges' are a different colour (the colour of his clothes), thus more likely to be the skirt of his tunic, and the uneven lines, representing folds/pleats. There is no sign of any yoke on any of the figures, and both the black and the white coloured armour are flared out over the hips - exactly like a Bell cuirass of that era, and unlike any Tube-and-Yoke, which are invariably and characteristically straight/parallel sided..... don't be led astray by the 'white colour' on one of them !
Like I said earlier, these figures are too abstract to be able to say what is being depicted, but the absence of 'yoke', and the very characteristic 'flare' at the hips makes the most likely candidate a Bell cuirass.....but it is vague enough to see whatever you want to!
Like I said earlier, these figures are too abstract to be able to say what is being depicted, but the absence of 'yoke', and the very characteristic 'flare' at the hips makes the most likely candidate a Bell cuirass.....but it is vague enough to see whatever you want to!
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
